Books are scattered throughout Baldur’s Gate 3. They all can result in different events once read. Sometimes, they kickstart quests. Other times, they simply build upon the game’s lore. Below is a listing of all the books that you can find in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Description
Goblin’s Drawing
A childlike charcoal drawing of three stick figures.
Hide-Bound Journal
Shipment Orders
Simple, direct orders on how to deliver a chest.
Stamped Handbill
A tattered, well-handled bill posted to recruit adventurers.
A is for Azuth, and other Gods I
A collection of children’s rhymes about the gods Amaunator, Asmodeus, and Auril.
A is for Azuth, and other Gods II
A collection of children’s rhymes about the gods Azuth, Bane, and Beshaba.
A is for Azuth, and other Gods III
A is for Azuth, and other Gods VI
A is for Azuth, and other Gods VII
A is for Azuth, and other Gods IX
A collection of children’s rhymes about the gods Milil, Myrkul, and Mystra.
A is for Azuth, and other Gods XI
A collection of children’s rhymes about the gods SeluÌ‚ne, Shar, and Silvanus.
A Fall of Netheril
A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday
A History of the Flaming Fist
This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink.
A List of Essential Personnel
A Modest Guide To Sword Coast Wine
A Pleasurable Deal
A Promising Candidate
A Primer on Mythical Beasts
This thick, gold-trimmed tome is embossed with decorative outlines of fantastical beasts.
A Sprinter’s Guide to Goblins
A Tour of Tempest
A Traveller’s Guide to Baldur’s Gate
Abandoned Journal
About Creation of Orphic Hammer
Absolving the Wayward Heart
Accelerated Grand Design
Account of the Establishment of Crèche Y’llek
Address Book
A large book containing the addresses of important people and buisinesses in the city.
Adopters of Culture
Always Hungry
Amaps' Memoirs
The reflections of Paul Amaps, a halfling humanist whose writings advised fair and peaceful ends to vicious conflicts.
An End to Suffering
Ancient Selûnite Journal
Apostle Diary
Apothecary’s Ledger
A notebook with cultivation techniques for a variety of plants.
Apprentice’s Journal
A meandering read, documenting an apprentice’s flight from his homeland and struggles in his new life.
Arfur’s Private Musings
Artefact Mission: Agent Roster
Artefact Mission: Challenges
Attention Acolytes
Attracting Drow Exiles
Avernus Survival Guide
A list of customers banned from the Waning Moon distillery.
Bagida’s Diary
Baldur’s Bones
Baldur’s Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder
Baldur’s Gate Protectors
Baldur’s Gate Temple Of Bhaal
Balduran Founds a City
Barkskin Recipe
Imbibing a chunky, wood-grain tasting broth of Barkskin will make the drinker’s flesh as hard as oak.
Beheading the Bitterroots
Blood Bank Log
Blood-Smeared Logbook
Bloody Journal
Book Draft - Volume I
Book Draft - Volume II
Book Draft - Volume III
Book Draft - Volume IV
Book of Dead Gods
A hefty, gold-embossed tome, listing gods immemorial.
Book of Final Breath
A slim ledger packed with rows of text. No matter how many pages are turned, there always seems to be another.
Book of Poetry
Bonded By Love - Husband’s Diary
Bonded By Love - Wife’s Diary
Born to be Wild
Broom and Bucket
Burnt Journal
Thick, fibrous webbing mats the cover, as if to seal the volume shut.
Canticles of the Dark Mistress
Captives of Shar
Chapel Records
A annal of the dead, listing hundreds of departed souls.
Circus of the Last Days: Employees
Clasped Book
Client List
Confiscated Book
Confronting the False Heart
Consolation of the Dark
Corsairs of Luskan
Crimes of the Moonmaiden
Curfew (Confidential Orders)
Dalyria’s Journal
Damaged Journal
Dark Journal
Dark Justiciar’s Journal
Dark Justiciar’s Plea
De Hurst’s Diary
Dead Druid’s Journal
Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
The spine of this heavy black book is inked with a chain of silver skulls.
Derryth’s Journal
Devil Don’t Rhyme - A Verse Epic
Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 1
A diary stamped with seven stars on its inner cover.
Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 2
A diary decorated with countless black circles.
Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3
A diary with no decoration at all.
Diary, 1492DR, Ffion Goldgrind
Discarded Journal
Diseases of the Blood
Disintegrating Journal
An old journal, recently updated with details of an investigation into and old and ‘grim’ place.
Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
Dispatches Ledger
Divine Rapture of Ilmater
Downfall of the Iron Throne
Druid Notebook
An ageing notebook telling the fragmented story of an accidental death and a cursed blade.
Druids' Ledger
Dufay’s Diary
Dusty Book
Easy Furnitures DIY
Efficacious Brain Removal
Eilistraee: Lady Silverhair
Elder Brain Domination
Elder’s Journal
Employee Pay Log
The pay slips of all the employees of the Post-House. Capitalism at its most… capitally.
Evil’s Ascent
An academic print of a literary play, complete with extensive notes and annotations.
Excavation of the Enclave of Nhalloth
Experiment on Cruor
Extracts - The Rule of Three
Eyewitness Account
A transcript of an interrogation, stamped with the symbol of the Flaming Fist
Fables of Faerûn I: The Dimwitted Drow
One of a series of thin tomes illustrating simple lessons to readers of all ages.
Fables of Faerûn II: The Daring Duergar
Fables of Faerûn III: The Enticing Elder
The spine of this heavy black hook is inked with a chain of silver skulls.
Fables of Faerûn IV: The Magnanimous Miner
Fables of Faerûn V: The Boy and the Beholder
Fables of Faerûn VI: The Cheerful Deep Gnome
Faded Logbook (Selunite, 124)
Faded Logbook (Selunite, 182)
Faded Logbook (Meerna)
A logbook detailing the various expeditions of Burrow Warden Meerna
Faldorn’s Canticle: The Shadow Druids' Doctrine
This aged tome’s corners are mossy and alive with tiny insects.
Ffion’s Journal
Fiendish Alchemy
Fiendish Bestiary
Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
Fine at Home: A Cookery Book
Flaming Fist History
Flaming Fist New Recruit Booklet
Flintdigger’s Abridged Dwarven History
Flophouse Issues
Flophouse Rules
Flophouse Tenants Logs
Flow of the Chionthar
This book is redolent with the enticing small of paper and ink.
Folksongs of Faerûn
Music tablature and song lyrics populate the pages of this unfinished bardic tome.
Forge Construction Log
Forging Success
Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V
A dense academic volume, printed with no eye for design or delight.
Front and Centre: A Thespian’s Memoir
Gerringothe’s Logbook
Get to Baldur’s Gate
Ghustil Stornugoss' Research Notes
Glory of the Absolute
Goblins: The Maglubiyet Gambit
Guestbook of Rosymorn Abbey
Graveyard Diary
Grymforge: A History
Habits of Patriars
Hairy Henry’s Journal
Halfred’s Note
Halsin’s Journal, Vol I
A log of the druids' encounter with a goblin detachment and a parasite-infected drow.
Harper Journal
Harper’s Notebook
Various accounts of impiety and blasphemy among locals, all bound in one ragged book.
Harvest of Memory
Havkelaag’s Journal
Havkelaag’s Notes
Healer’s Log
The forgotten journal of a small-town healer.
Healers' Ledger
An inventory of various pultices, tonics, and potions.
Heavy Book
Her Love For it Was Like A Plum
His Holy Blood, Vol. 1, Dawnmaster Dovaer
His Holy Blood, Vol. 2, Paladin Vaseid
His Holy Blood, Vol. 3, Dawnmaster Vaseid
Hostage Census
How to Track an Illithid
Hymns for the Gone
Ideas for New Outfits
Illmatari Combat Manual
A set of dispatch orders followed by the Illmateri monks residing in the Open Hand Temple.
Impractical Magic, Volume 1
In the Mode of Masters
Incomplete Journal
Infernal Contracts And Bargains
Infirmary Records
Inkeeper’s Journal
This book is redolent wit hthe enticing smell of paper and ink.
Inner Peace: The Path to Perfection
Innkeeper’s Journal
Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
A weighty tome for sure.
Inscribed Githyanki Slate
Inscrutable Journal
This worn, leather-bound journal smells of moisture and rotting vegetation. Only a few loose pages are legible, blood having soaked through the others.
Intelligence concerning the weapon
Interrogation Log
Inventory of Takings
Inventory Report
Isobel’s Diary
Jake’s Encyclopaedia of Eels
Loosely bound, uneven pages hang out of this book. The script is uneven, and seems to be written in whatever colour ink the author had to hand at the time.
Journal of Enver Gortash
Journal of Gyldro Angleiron
Journal of High Initiate Jarrus
Journal of Magthew Budj
Journal of Past Adventurers N1
Journal of Past Adventurers N2
Journal of Past Adventurers N3
Journal of Past Adventurers N4
Journal of a Novice Monk
Journey Through The Jungle
Judge of the Damned
Kobold Journal
A tattered book of drawings, stained with wine and reeking of bodily fluids of all sorts.
Last Notes of a Monk
Ledger of Production: Motivators
Lessons for Sensible Living IV: Cities and How to Survive Them
A slim, cheaple constructed book. The front cover is decorated with an engraving of a grimacing man, smoking a clay pipe.
Lessons for Sensible Living XII: Zariel’s Fall
Lessons from the Boiler
Life of Beaky
An account of the life of Beaky, the oldest pigeon on the Post House.
Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
Logbook of Sendings
Logbook XII: 1371
A collection of entires detailing the exploits of an outpost overseen by the Emerald Enclave.
Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
A hefty book for beginning spellcasters. Though mostly truthful, the author, clearly a wizard himself, seemed to possess quite a particular bias.
Magical Histories, Volume 3: The Second Sundering
Magical Histories, Volume 4: The Chosen of Mystra
Magmar’s Record
Mason’s Log
Mastodonian Memoirs, Vol. 1, Investigator Valeria
Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda
Memoirs, Vol 1, Sister Clarwen
Meticulous Notes
Missives of Candlekeep
This book is packed full of meticulously copied letters, preserving even the handwriting of the originals.
Mistress of the Night and Friends
A series of stories distributed among children to encourage the worship of the godess Shar.
Mistress of Souls' Research Log
Moonhaven Logbook
A detailed record of the travellers sighted in Moonhaven village.
Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
No Price Too High
Note About the Shield of Silvam
Notes from a Soothsayer
Notes on Mind Flayer Anatomy
Observations on the Shadow Curse
This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink
Olam’s Journal
Old Architectural Collection
Old Maintenance Records
Old Schoolbook
A weather-worn and faded school attendance book.
Oliver’s Diary
On Death & Resurrection
A thin and pliable volume, smelling faintly of dust.
On Educating the Faithful
This slender, tightly-bound manuscript has had the spider engraved on the front of it scratched into oblivion.
On Illithids, Volume XXVI
This tome is bound with deep rotheÌ leather with the head of a mind flayer carved deep into the hide.
On Goblins: My Life Among the Conquering Host
A loosely bound collection of papers containing rough sketches of a goblin priestess with accompanying text.
On Receiving Her Grace
A book of worship to the goddess Lovitar. There are bloody fingerprints on several pages.
On Psionic Manipulations and Countermeasures
On Serpent Venom Toxin
On Sloth, Gluttony, and Vice
On the Origins of the Zhentarim
On Weapon Coatings
Part 10 of the Basics of Alchemy series by Haskinn Xhesilaphin, a descaled dragonborn who lived a life of difficult pain and commendable selflessness.
One Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We’ll Meet
Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers
This thin tome is bookmarked with scraps of illegibly-annotated scraps of paper.
Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers
A tattered scrap of cloth bearing an image of a rose marks a chapter in this slim volume.
Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague
A cracked and well-worn volume, showing passage through many hands.
Orcs of the Trielta Hills
Order of the Gauntlet: On Matters of Law and Justice
Orders from B
Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part One: Betrayal
Each part of the story can be read by first reading The Careful Art of Tir’su Ciphers or adding it to Lae’zel’s inventory. A round slate with circular symbols etched into it.
Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Two: Sacrifice
Overlapping Lines
Pandirna’s Diary
A description of Pandirna’s daily life, addressed to her wife.
Patient Log: Duke Belynne Stelmane
Patients' Registry
Patriars Journal
Post House Delivery Complaints
A record of all the complaints the post-house has received recently.
Post-House Dog’s Log
A well kept account of the dogs kept in the kennel and their health.
Potion Catalogue
Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
Potion of Healing Recipe
Prayer for Forgiveness
A plain, unadorned note.
Prayers of Repent
Primer on Calimshan
A primer on Calimshan language. Covered in notes and clumsy attempts at the foreign alphabet.
Prisoner’s Journal
Provender Ledger
Ragged Diary
Raphael’s Diary - Chapter 1
Raphael’s Diary - Chapter 2
Raphael’s Diary - Chapter 3
Record of Complaints
Recruiting Gnolls
This book is part of a series detailing how the Absolute added various races into their army. This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink.
Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
Reflections of a Gullible Prick
An agoraphobic and cantankerous refugee’s journal.
Refugee’s Journal
Safe and Sound: a Guide to our Vaults
Schematic Compendium
Scorched Book
Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
This sensational tome, embossed with elaborate filigree, has all the pomp and weight of a religious text.
Selûne’s Devotee
Selûnite Journal
Selûnite Prayer Book
Shanties for the Bitch Queen
A salt-stained collection of sea shanties meant to honour Umberlee, goddess of the sea.
Sharess' Caress Finances
Sharran Registry
Sharran’s Journal
Shipment Ledger
Simple Poison Recipe
Skeletons in Patriar Closets
Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
Soul Cage Research
Soul Coins: A Treatise
Spattered Diary
Speak your Loss
Special Operation - Infernal Arms
Stedd’s Virtues of Unions
An advisory text suggesting that when powerful forces attack, union is the most appropriate goal.
Studies of the Elder Brains
Study of the Sword Coast
More of a scrapbook than a study, this records maps and snippets of knowledge.
Submersible Maintenance
Suelto’s Ethics of War
A treatise by Cristina Suelto proposing harsh retaliation against political adversaries.
Supplication Scrapbook
Supplications to Umberlee
Surgeon’s Memorandum
A clear warning written in clear hand.
Surgeon’s Research Notes
Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran’s Primer
A detailed primer for practitioners of the surgical arts.
Surveillance Notes
Sword Coast Songbook
A collection of sheet music compiled by the bard Silke Roserna.
Taking the Groves Off the Table
Tales Of The Hells
Talis: Divination without Magic
A well-loved book describing the meanings of the different Talis cards, as well as how to use them for fortune telling. The pages with the Comet, Death, and the Ten of Waves are carefully marked.
Tarbell’s Guide to Distractions
A much-read guide to chicanery, stagecraft, and earning a quick coin.
Tattered Journal
Use to read.
Tattered Notes
Teachings of Ilmater
Teachings of Loss: Dark Justiciar
Teachings of Loss: Endless Dark
Teachings of Loss: Forgetting and Loss
Teachings of Loss: Light’s Love
Teachings of Loss: Oblivion
Teachings of Loss: Own Secret
The Annals of Baldur’s Gate
The Approachable East, Vol. 1
The Approachable East, Vol. 2
The Approachable East, Vol. 3
The Approachable East, Vol. 4
The Approachable East, Vol. 6
The Bhaalspawn Saga: Part II
The Big Book of Little Drinking Games
A surprisingly thick volume of drinking games attributed to ‘Ko Bold’.
The Blood War
The Book of Cheesomancy
The Butler’s Cane Has A Knob On The End
The Careful Art of Tir’su Ciphers
This stone disk is carved with circular runes and pictographs.
The Collectanea Rubrum
A compendium of dark arcana.
The Curse of the Vampyr
An ancient text, written on dry, cracking paper. Its cover is inscribed with every holy symbol you’ve ever seen and some you haven’t.
The Devil You Know: An Autobiography
The Diary of Lump the Enlightened
The Dukes of Baldur’s Gate
The Elf Song
The Evil Eye
If one looks at the eyes etched into this cover long enough, they appear to blink.
The Ecstasy of Murder
The Final Sacrifice of the Moon Daughter
The Five Year War: A Diplomat’s Record
The Folly and the Fall
The Folly of Zerthimon
The Gauntlet of Shar
The Genesis of Selûne and Shar
A book of religuos lore.
The Grand Design
The Guild: Hidden Rulers of Baldur’s Gate
The Hells Unleashed
The House of Wonders
The Hunter’s Piercing Gaze
The Illustrated Adventures of Balduran
The Leadership of the Zhentarim
The Legend of Ansur
The Lord of Murder’s Songbook
The Lords of Madness, Vol 4: Yeenoghu
This book of fine red leather seems ageless, but the smell of rotting flesh emanates from its pages.
The Mortal View: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bhaalspawn Crisis
This mass-produced book has a cheap imitation of Bhaal’s symbol stamped onto the cover.
The Mountain Is You
The Needled Book
The Power of the Crown
The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
The Quarta Sune
The Realm According to Bumpo
The Roads to Darkness
The Rumour of Reithwin
The Screed of the Willing
The spine of this ancient book is cracked and broken, but its pages have kept a sharp, cutting edge.
The Shattered Seldarine
A finely-bound tome of black leather, inscribed with silver ink.
The Surprising Habits of Kara-Turian Warlords
The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 1
The manuscript is eye-catching, if only for its lurid and jarring colour scheme.
The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 2
A compact volume, crearly cheaply-made.
The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 3
A thin volume, creased from use. The cover features a crude drawing of a flying ship.
The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 4
A brightly illustrated volume, kept in immaculate condition.
The Ultimate State
The Unclaimed
The sturdily-bound story of a cleric of Shar whose soul was never claimed from the City of Judgement.
The Waning Moon: Consignments
A hardbound ledger of the Reithwin distillery’s shipments.
The War between Selûne and Shar
A book of religious lore.
The Way of the Wanderer
The well-tended garden
The Wonders of Phandalin
Aged, dry pages crack at your touch, but this book otherwise well preserved.
The Would-Be Saint
Therapeutics
Threadbare Book
Tollhouse Ledger (Reithwin)
A fastidious record of imports and exports.
Tollhouse Ledger (Risen Road)
Tome of the Self-Same Trial
Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
Traveller’s Guide to the Sword Coast Vol IX: Inns and Guesthouses
Traveller’s Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IV: The Risen Road
Traveller’s Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. VIII: The Outer City
Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers
A research paper on sussur tree flowers. Only the first paragraph is finished.
Valarken’s Failed Coup
A summary of Valarken’s failed attempt to become the sole ruler of Baldur’s Gate.
Vault Pass Ledger
Veterinary Log
Volo’s Complete Guide to the Behaviour of Nymphs
The heavily edited draft of a book that examines the activities of nymphs in GREAT detail.
Volo’s Guide to Baldur’s Gate
This very accurate book is packed full of tales of the grimy streets, raucous taverns, and outlandish characters of Baldur’s Gate.
Volo’s Guide to Spirits and Spectres
The working draft of a book on… spirits?
Wall of the Faithless
Warden’s Workbook
Web-Covered Journal
The pages of this tome are marred with stains - some blood or unknown ichor.
Winery Records
Writin Exorcises
Writings of a Wroot
Ye Follye of Karsus
Yearning for the Moon
